The study of permutation complexity can be envisioned as a new kind of symbolic dynamics. This book is primarily addressed to researchers working in nonlinear dynamics and complex systems. It is also for graduate students interested in these subjects.

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Inhalt
What Is This All About?.- First Applications.- Ordinal Patterns.- Ordinal Structure of the Shifts.- Ordinal Structure of the Signed Shifts.- Metric Permutation Entropy.- Topological Permutation Entropy.- Discrete Entropy.- Detection of Determinism.- SpaceTime Dynamics.- Conclusion and Outlook.